Flu. Respiratory disease properly named influenza. Some specific varities of influenza with a vaccination available are: A-New Caledonia, A-California, B-Shanghai. There is no vaccination for avian flu or avian influenza. Digestive-system diseases commonly called "stomach flu" (and widely misunderstood as being influenza), see Gastroenteritis flu is short for Latin flumis = "to die of respiratory disease".

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In 1976, a swine flu scare provided the biggest embarrassment of US President Gerald Ford's administration. In January 1976, Gerald R. Ford was vaccinated in front of press cameras. On February 5 an army recruit at Fort Dix said he felt tired and weak. He died the next day and four of his fellow soldiers were later hospitalized. Two weeks after his death, health officials announced that swine flu was the cause of death. A number of others vaccinated became paral ...

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Swine flu, Swine flu - The U.S. swine flu scare of 1976, Swine flu - Sources

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Avian influenza (also known as bird flu, avian flu, influenzavirus A flu, type A flu, or genus A flu) is a flu due to a type of influenza virus that is hosted by birds, but may infect several species of mammals. It was first identified in Italy in the early 1900s and is now known to exist worldwide. [1] A strain of the H5N1-type of avian influenzavirus that emerged in 1997 has been identified as the most likely source of a future influenza pandemic and is known to have infected 137 people in Asia sin ...

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Influenza (or as it is commonly known, the flu or the grippe) is a contagious disease of the upper airways and the lungs, caused by an RNA virus of the orthomyxoviridae family. It rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, imposing considerable economic burden, in the form of health care costs and lost productivity. Three influenza pandemics in the 20th century, each following a major genetic ...

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• Influenza - Flu season
• Influenza - Prevention
• Influenza - Treatment
• Influenza - Avian influenza
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The word "Avian" can refer to different things: Most commonly it is used referring to the class of animals named "birds". Avians are a fantasy race in the online game of Utopia. Avian influenza, also known as bird flu or avian flu. Ava Moore, a transgendered woman formally named Avian Moore, a fictional character from Nip/Tuck. Other related archivesAva Moore, Avian Moore, Avian influenza, Avians, Nip/Tuck, Utopia, animals, birds, class, f

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Gastroenteritis, or inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, is an illness of fever, diarrhoea and/or vomiting caused by an infectious virus, bacterium or parasite. It usually is of acute onset, normally lasting less than 10 days and self-limiting. Sometimes it is referred to simply as 'gastro'. It is often referred to as the stomach flu or gastric flu even though it is not related to influenza. If the inflammation is limited to the stomach, the term gastritis is used, and if the small bowel alone is affected i ...

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• Gastroenteritis - Viral causes
• Gastroenteritis - Bacterial causes
• Gastroenteritis - Parasites
• Gastroenteritis - Epidemiology
• Gastroenteritis - Clinical features
• Gastroenteritis - Differential diagnosis
• Gastroenteritis - Treatment
• Gastroenteritis - Drug therapy
• Gastroenteritis - Complications

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One prevailing theory hypothesizes that two primary mechanisms in genetics -- genetic drift and antigenic shift -- were involved in the creation of the virus strain found at Fort Riley in Kansas. The fort bred its own swine and poultry for local consumption. Like the avian flu in Asian countries, poultry in the United States characteristically contract a certain strain of influenza. Swine also characteristically contract a specific strain of influenza; however, the two strains (one infecting avian species, the other infecting swine) can usua ...

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Spanish flu, Spanish flu - Mutation theory, Spanish flu - Effects of new strain, Spanish flu - Social facts, Spanish flu - Notable victims, Spanish flu - Recent research, Spanish flu - Sources

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Aztreonam is a monocyclic beta-lactam antibiotic (a monobactam) originally isolated from Chromobacterium violaceum. It is resistant to beta-lactamases and is useful against gram-negative pathogens. Commonly used in its medicine form as an antibiotic to treat infections in several different parts of the body. It is not used to treat colds, viral or flu infections. It has no useful activity against gram-positive bacteria or anaerobes, but has very broad spectrum against gram-negative aerobes, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This has given it the nickname "the m ...

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Boiron is a multinational France-based homeopathic manufacturing company, having an operating presence in 59 countries worldwide. It is the largest manufacturer of homeopathic products in the world, and in 2005, was the second largest manufacturer of over the counter medicine in France. In 2004, it employed a workforce of 2,779 and had a turnover of € 313 million. In June 2005, the firm acquired Dolisos Laboratories, then the world's second largest homeopathic remedy manufacturer. One of its key products is Oscillococcinum, claimed to relieve flu symptoms, and one of the biggest-selling ho ...

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Ziyang (Simplified: 资阳; Traditional: 資陽; Hanyu Pinyin: Zīyáng; Wade-Giles: Tzu-yang) prefecture-level city in the Sichuan Province, in south central China, with more than 100,000 inhabitants. In July of 2005, 17 farm workers in neighboring villages died from a mysterious outbreak, and 58 more were infected. Foreign officials suspected Bird Flu and were worried it might be spread there by migratory birds. Chinese researchers, however, believe Streptococcus ...

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Paracetamol (INN) or acetaminophen (USAN) is a popular analgesic and antipyretic drug that is used for the relief of fever, headaches, and other minor aches and pains. It is a major ingredient in numerous cold and flu medications and many prescription analgesics. It is remarkably safe in standard doses, but, because of its wide availability, deliberate or accidental overdoses are not uncommon. Paracetamol (Acetaminophen) 4-(Acetylam ...

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• Paracetamol - Mechanism of action
• Paracetamol - Metabolism
• Paracetamol - Toxicity
• Paracetamol - Overview
• Paracetamol - Mechanism of toxicity
• Paracetamol - Risk factors for toxicity
• Paracetamol - Natural history
• Paracetamol - Diagnosis
• Paracetamol - Treatment

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While it usually only infected less than one-third of the population in most places and killed only a fraction of those infected, there were a number of towns in several countries where the entire population was wiped out. The only sizeable inhabited place with no documented outbreak of the flu in 1918–1919 was the island of Marajó at the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil. Many cities, states, and countries enforced restrictions on public gatherings and travel to try to stay the pandemic. In many places theaters, dance halls, chu ...

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In February 1998, The Molecular Pathology Division of the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) recovered samples of the 1918 influenza from the frozen corpse of a Native Alaskan woman buried for nearly eight decades in permafrost near Brevig Mission, Alaska. Brevig Mission lost approximately eighty-five percent of its population to the Spanish flu in November, 1918. One of the four recovered samples contained viable genetic material of the 1918 virus. This sample provided scientists a first hand opportunity to study the virus, which ...

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One prevailing theory hypothesizes that two primary mechanisms in genetics -- genetic drift and antigenic shift -- were involved in the creation of the virus strain found at Fort Riley in Kansas. The fort bred its own swine and poultry for local consumption. As is the case with the avian flu in Asian countries, poultry in the United States characteristically contract a certain strain of influenza. Swine also characteristically contract a specific strain of influenza; however, the two strains (one infecting avian species, the other infecting ...

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Spanish flu, Spanish flu - Mutation theory, Spanish flu - Effects of new strain, Spanish flu - Social facts, Spanish flu - Notable victims, Spanish flu - Recent research, Spanish flu - Sources

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The strain was unusual in commonly killing many young and healthy victims, as opposed to more common influenzas which caused the bulk of their mortality among newborns and the old and infirm. People without symptoms could be struck suddenly and be rendered too feeble to walk within hours; many would die the next day. Symptoms included a blue tint to the face and coughing up blood caused by severe obstruction of the lungs. In further stages, the virus caused an uncontrollable haemorrhaging that filled the lung ...

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The strain was unusual in commonly killing many young and healthy victims, as opposed to more common influenzas which caused the bulk of their mortality among newborns and the old and infirm. People without symptoms could be struck suddenly and be rendered too feeble to walk within hours; many would die the next day. Symptoms included a blue tint to the face and coughing up blood caused by severe obstruction of the lungs. In further stages, the virus caused an uncontrollable hemoraging that filled the lung ...

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Wild fowl act as natural asymptomatic carriers of avian flu virus. Prior to the current H5N1 epizootic, strains of avian influenza virus had been demonstrated to be transmitted from wild fowl to only birds, pigs, horses, seals, whales and humans; and only between humans and pigs and between humans and domestic fowl; and not other pathways such as domestic fowl to horse. [7] H5N1 has been shown to be also transmitted to tigers, leopards, ...

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Influenzavirus A, Influenzavirus A - Subtypes, Influenzavirus A - Annual flu, Influenzavirus A - Genetics, Influenzavirus A - In nonhumans, Influenzavirus A - In humans, Influenzavirus A - Sources

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Influenza reaches peak prevalence in winter, and because the Northern and Southern Hemisphere have winter at different times of the year, there are actually two flu seasons each year. Therefore, the World Health Organization (assisted by the National Influenza Centers) makes two vaccine formulations every year; one for the Northern, and one for the Southern Hemisphere. While most influenza outbreaks in the Northern Hemisphere tend to peak in January or February, not all do. For example, the influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919 reached ...

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While it usually only infected less than one-third of the population in most places and killed only a fraction of those infected, there were a number of towns in several countries where the entire population was wiped out. Many cities, states, and countries enforced restrictions on public gatherings and travel to try to stay the pandemic. In many places theaters, dance halls, churches and other public gathering places were shut down for over a year. Quarantines were enforced with little success. Some communities placed armed guards at the borders and turned back or quarantined any travellers ...

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